Valerie Chew
Having been a professional writer the past year, I have always felt that pictures make great accessories for words – I realize now that the reverse is also true. LaBelle certainly did a great job highlighting the different elements that make a good picture. And Snider has some really compelling works. However, I notice that most of Snider’s pictures have hardly any captions, except for the names of countries they were taken in. The picture of the elderly man in Cannes, France, for example, could illustrate a great vacation just as well as it could depict the ill effects of sun exposure. If reactions evoked from photographs were a reflection of the viewer’s biography, wouldn’t some words help anchor the meaning of a picture?
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